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iaeasn MATTHEW a. HULL, or coNNnasvILLN, INDIANA, AssIeNoa To anx MANFACTR- .INcr COMPANY, or OONNNNsvILLN, INDIANA, A CORPORATION or INDIANA. r

CONNECTER :Foa Two-PANT AUTOMOBILE DOORS.y

Applicatoniled December 9,1922, Serial No. 605,968.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, MATTHEW R. HULL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Connersville, in the county of Fayette and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Connecters for Two- Part' Automobile Doors, of which the following is a specification.

My said invention relates to a door connecter for vehicles having removable sections and is of the type shown in my application No. 525,927, filed December 30, 1921. It is an object of the invention to provide adjusting means for varying the resilient action of the connecter on the. upper door section as may be necessary to cause the upper part of the door to lit tightly in place but without excessive strain on the connecter.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which are made a part hereof and on which similar reference characters indicate similar parts7 f Figure 1 is an elevation of a door with my connecter in place thereon, and

Figure 2 a side elevation of the connecter partly in section.

In the drawings reference character 10 indicates the lower door section which forms part of the permanent body of the vehicle and 11 the upper door section which is removable from the vehicle, such door portion forming part of the winter top for a car which is open in the summertime. The connecter which is the subjectof my invention is adapted to be secured to the upper door section by means of a bracket 12 in which the horizontal rod-like part 13 of the connecter is journaled, said connecter having also a flattened upwardly extending part 14 secured to the door by a screw 15 or by a loop, as in my application above referred to.

For securing the `connecter to the lower door section I have provided a bracket 16 fixed to said section by screws, or other means, the horizontal part 13 being journaled in said bracket, and another bracket 17 also ixed to the door. At one end the rodlike part 13 of the connecter is bent at right angles and screw-threaded as shown at 18 for engagement in a threaded opening of an arm 19 extending downward over the bracket 17. This arm has a slot 2O through which passes a screw 21 having threaded engagement with an Opening in the bracket 17. A washer 22 is placed between the head of the screw and the adjacent surfaceof the arm 19. By reference to Figure 2 it will be see that the arms 14 and 19 are not parallel'but are inclined `relatively to each other so that when the one is secured to the upperV door section and the other to the lower door section the'arm'la` will tend to throw the'upper secition inward toward the body of the vehicle.

In this way the upper part of the section 11 may be caused to strike against the fixed part of the body before the lower section is closed thereby twisting the connecter to hold the upper section tightly against the door jamb. Some doors are thicker than others and this condition has frequently 'made it necessary,

where the entire device including arms 14 and 19 and the body part were in one piece,

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to re-bend the rod of which they were formed in order to space the arm 19 sufficiently from the body of the rod. `Thus a change inthe length of the section between angles 23 and 24 would serve yto accommodate the door of` the permanent body precisely, without rat-y tling or admitting cold air. Such a change also serves to vary the torsion lof the rod and so the tightness of lit of the upper door section and, in the device here shown, maybe made by merely rotating arm 19. The slot 2() facilitates assembling of the device in that the screw may be entered in the hole in the bracket 17 even if the bracket is a little too high or too low.

It will be evident to those `skilled in the art that my device may be changed in various ways without departing from the spirit of my invention and therefore I do not limit myself to what is shown in the drawing and described in the specication but only as indicated in the appended claims.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A door connecter comprising upper and lower arms for connection to relatively mov.

twisting strain imparted to the said body portion on Closing the door,y Substantially as set forth.

,2. A door connecter for vehicles comprising a pairbf arms .extending ,up land down for `conn'eetion `to. relatively movableY door seotionsg'ancl va body portion under torsional Strain when the door iS-eolosed, saidbody having a threaded end directed toward the interior of the vehicle bod)7 Mld :011e of said arms having threaded engagement with said end whereby the distance of the 'arm from the body may be adj nstably varied, substantially as set. forth. y y

3. In an automobile door having a permanent lower section and a removable rigid vupperseetion; a oohn'eeter havingl a .resilient body extending adjao'ent to the dividing line between saidlseotions', an arn for connection to theupper setion at its rear end, an arm this' 29 day of November, A. D. nineteen hundred and twenty-two. 1

. MATTHEW R. HULL. [n 5.] llVit'nesse's:y

R. H. CRAWFORD, G. C. HULL. 

